title: [Patient safety in health service research].
abstract: Patient safety is an essential quality criterion for good medical care. A main aim of patient safety interventions is the prevention and/or reduction of adverse events. Various approaches are available for this. The multidisciplinarity in health services research as well as the wide range of methods and topics leads to the fact that health services research is predestined to deal with many of the resulting research questions and with respect to the complexity.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für evidenzbasierte Versorgungsforschung, IFOM - Institut für Forschung in der Operativen Medizin, Lehrstuhl für Chirurgische Forschung, Fakultät für Gesundheit, Department für Humanmedizin, Universität Witten/Herdecke gGmbh, Campus Köln, Ostmerheimer Straße 200, Haus 38, 51109, Köln, Deutschland, michaela.eikermann@uni-wh.de.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eikermann
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pieper
authors.forename: E A M
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Neugebauer
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D061214:Patient Safety; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*